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The Last Ice Hunters by Jure Breceljnik and Rožle Bregar

FNE IDF DocBloc: Another Success for Slovenian Doc The Last Ice Hunters

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-14

Slovenian documentary The Last Ice Hunters, which captures the vanishing world of the Inuit communities of Eastern Greenland, got two awards at the Autrans International Mountain Film Festival.

GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Gives Highest Funding to Havel Biopic

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-12-11

PRAGUE: The Czech Film Fund will support the production of eight feature films with a total sum of 2,474,386 EUR / 64 m CZK. The highest support of 560,603 EUR…

Barrandov Studio to Coproduce Four New Czech Films

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-12-07

PRAGUE: Barrandov Studio will coproduce new projects by Agnieszka Holland, Zdeněk Jiráský and David Ondříček, and also an animated film by Denisa Grimmová and Jan Bubeníček in 2019.

dok.incubator Calls for Applications

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-07

PRAGUE: Long documentaries in the rough-cut stage can apply for the dok.incubator workshop 2019 until 30 January 2019.

The Last Shift of Thomas Hisem by Jindřich Andrš

FNE IDF DocBloc: From Miner to Programmer: “I’ve Overcome My Own Prejudice,” Says Jindřich Andrš

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-07

Click HERE for the interview with Jindřich Andrš, the director of the documentary The Last Shift of Thomas Hisem, about the eponymous worker’s last day of work before a coal…

MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 Selection Announced

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-12-05

PRAGUE: Four projects from the Czech Republic and Hungary have been selected for the MIDPOINT Shorts 2019 programme.

GRANTS: Czech Film Fund Supports Three Debut Films

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-11-30

PRAGUE: Ten debut films with an overall request for 50m CZK applied for support in the call for first films. The Czech Film Fund allocated 10 m CZK in total…

My Granny from Mars by Aleksandar Mihalkovich

FNE IDF DocBloc: Special Screening of My Granny from Mars

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-30

PRAGUE: My Granny from Mars by Aleksandar Mihalkovich, which was banned in Belarus, gets a special solidarity screening in Prague.

Whiskey Cavalier Gets Second Round of Czech Incentives

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-28

PRAGUE: The upcoming US series Whiskey Cavalier, which shot its pilot episode in Prague in March 2018, has been approved for a second boost of Czech film incentives.

Visegrad Animation Forum Expands and Rebrands

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-27

TREBON: The Central European networking initiative for the animation industry is changing its name as it expands its outreach. Formerly known as VAF, the Visegrad Animation Forum, it has been…

FNE IDF DocBloc: Ex-Oriente at Jihlava

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-23

Ex-Oriente presented six days of training and workshops in Jihlava.

BBC World on Fire Shooting in Prague

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-22

PRAGUE: World on Fire, a seven-part series for BBC One, is currently filming in Prague through Czech Anglo Productions, using Czech film incentives.

Czech Bionaut Partners with Poland and Slovakia

Cathy Meils Czech Republic 2018-11-16

PRAGUE: The Czech production company Bionaut is collaborating with partners to set up companies in Poland and Slovakia to work on coproductions.

FNE IDF DocBloc: IDF Films Head to IDFA

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-16

Docs from IDF's programmes are part of the line-up at IDFA in Amsterdam.

Jirí Mádl in Vlk z Královských Vinohrad by Jan Nemec

PRODUCTION: Jiri Madl Completes On the Roof for 2019 Premiere

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-11-12

PRAGUE: The popular Czech actor-turned-director Jiri Madl is completing his second film On the Roof to debut in 2019, a year after originally scheduled.

FNE IDF DocBloc: Central Bus Station Tops East Silver Viewers List

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-09

Czech docs topped the list of the most viewed films of the East Silver Video Market at Jihlava IDFF.

PRODUCTION: Czech Comedy The Last Aristocrat Starts Casting

Denisa Strbova Czech Republic 2018-11-07

PRAGUE: A film version of the Czech bestseller The Last Aristocrat, directed by Jiří Vejdělek, is in preproduction for release in 2019.

Tony, Shelly and Genius by Filip Pošivač

Czech Animated Feature Film Selected for Cartoon Springboard

FNE Staff Czech Republic 2018-11-07

PRAGUE: Tony, Shelly & Genius, a 70-minute animated feature film, is among the 24 projects which will be pitched at Cartoon Springboard taking place 4-6 December in Valenciennes.

Boy of War by Cyprien Clément-Delmas and Igor Kosenko

Two Year Old Analog Vision’s International Vision

Cathy Meils Czech Republic 2018-11-02

PRAGUE: Just off a double win at the Jihlava IDFF for the German/Czech coproduction Boy of War directed by Cyprien Clément-Delmas and Igor Kosenko, and currently presenting the international premiere…